Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lectures

The Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lectures are held annually at the University of California Los Angeles sponsored by the Center for Early Global Studies (formerly the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).^[1] Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse were faculty at the university who helped establish the series.^[2]^[3]^[4] In 2005 and 2011 they donated their collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in Latin and vernacular languages to the UCLA Library Special Collections.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lectures

Date	Lecturer	Title of Lecture	Institution
2025	Kristina Richardson.^[8]	“Between Two Worlds: The Roma and Early Global Print Cultures”	University of Virginia
2024	Ilse Sturkenboom ^[9]	“On the Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and How it Revolutionized Manuscript Production in the Islamic World”	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
2022	Denva Gallant ^[10]	“Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy”	University of Delaware
2021	Andrea M. Achi ^[11]	“A Library of Memories: Textual Preservation at the Monastery of St. Michael in Egypt”	The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2020	Joshua Calhoun	“Hydrophilic Archives: Early Handmade Paper in Unstable Environments”	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2019	Sarah J. Pearce	“‘This is What I Have on My Bookshelf’: Jewish Autobiography and Descriptive Bibliography in the Islamic West”	New York University
2018	Emine Fetvaci^[12]	“From Provincial Chronicle to Grand Imperial Manuscript: The Making of the ‘Nusretname'” Boston University
2017	Erik Kwakkel	“Not for Keeps: The Ephemeral in Medieval Manuscript Culture”	Leiden University
2016	Jessica Brantley	“The Book of Hours in Literary History”	Yale University
2015	Ann Blair	“In the Workshop of the Mind: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe”	Harvard University
2014	Sylvie L. Merian	“Protection Against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian Manuscript Bindings”	The Morgan Library & Museum
2013	Robert Somerville	“Papal Councils, Papal Records, and the First Crusade: the Council of Benevento in 1113”	Columbia University
2012	Kathryn Kerby-Fulton ^[13]	“The Clerical Proletariat and Manuscript Production in Late Medieval England	University of Notre Dame
2011	John Van Engen^[14]	“Scribes at Home: Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life and In-House Books”	University of Notre Dame
2010	Elizabeth Morrison	“Searching for the Origins of Secular Imagery in 13th-Century France”	J. Paul Getty Museum
2008	William Noel	Archimedes in Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off”	The Walters Art Museum
2008	James Carley	“‘A notable & famous librarie in the Archbishop of Canterburies house’: John Whitgift, Richard Bancroft, and the Foundation of Lambeth Palace Library”	York University, Toronto
2007	Mary Rouse	“Christine de Pizan and the Chapelet des vertus”	University of California, Los Angeles
2007	William Sherman	“The Pointing-Hand: A Pervasive Symbol in the History of Texts”	York University, Toronto
2007	Fr. Justin Sinaites	“The Library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai: A Resource of Continuing Significance”	Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt
2006	Christopher Page^[15]	“Copying Books in a Gradual Fashion, 1025-1125: The Wanderings of Two Monks and the Making of the Western Musical Tradition”	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University
2005	Nigel F. Palmer	“Blockbooks and the Fifteenth-Century Media Revolution”	Oxford University
2004	Roger S. Wieck	“Trial by Fleur: The Master of Walters 219 and the Trés Riches Heures”	The Pierpont Morgan Library
2003	Sylvia Huot^[16]	“Reading and Meditation in Late Medieval Devotional Manuscripts”	Pembroke College, Cambridge University
2002	Christopher de Hamel	“The Imaginary Library of Archbishop Theodore”	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
2001	Peter W. M. Blayney^[17]	“England’s First Widow Printer: The Life, Times, and Kin of Elizabeth Pickering Jackson Redmond Cholmeley Cholmeley”	University of Toronto
2000	Myra D. Orth	“French Renaissance Manuscripts: Elegant Survivors”	Getty Research Institute
1998	Jenny Stratford	“John Duke of Bedford (1389-1435): Royal Patron and Collector”	British Museum
1998	Walter Cahn ^[18]	“The ‘Portrait’ of the Prophet Muhammad in the Toledan Collection”	Yale University
1997	Fr. Leonard E. Boyle, O.P.	“The Vatican Library and the Beginnings of the Printed Book”	Prefect, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
1996	David S. Zeidberg ^[19]	“Selling Italy’s First Books: The Marketing Strategies of Swynheym and Pannartz”	University of California, Los Angeles
1995	A. R. Braunmuller	“Dead People and Real Places: Fact, Imagination, and Names in Shakespeare’s Plays”	University of California, Los Angeles
1994	Richard H. Rouse	“Geoffrey of St. Leger, Gerard of Montaigu and the Roman de Fauvel”	University of California, Los Angeles

References

^ Zrinka Stahuljak, “How Early before It Is Too Late? ‘Medieval’ Periodization, Epistemic Change, and the Institution,” Viator 54, no. 2 (2023): 1–24
^ University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Content Provider et al. Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users : A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011.
^ Effros, Bonnie, Elizabeth Morrison, and Christopher Baswell. “In Memorium Richard H. Rouse.” Speculum 98.3 (2023): 999–1002.
^ Rouse, Richard H., and Mary A. Rouse. 2000. Manuscripts and Their Makers : Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200-1500. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers.
^ Richard H. Rouse, 1933-2022 CMRS. Center for Early Global Studies. College. Humanities, UCLA.
^ Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Renaissance Manuscripts of the UCLA Library Special Collections. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017.
^ Rouse, R. H. and Mary Rouse et al. “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts of the UCLA Library Special Collections I. The Richard and Mary Rouse Collection.”Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 472, 2017.
^ Richardson, Kristina L. 2023. Roma in the Medieval Islamic World : Literacy, Culture, and Migration. London: I.B. Tauris.
^ Sturkenboom, Ilse; Bisulca, Christina; Bosch, Sebastian; u. a. (2022): Chinese Decorated Paper in Persianate Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century : Materiality, Use and Meaning, in: Lorenz Korn und Berenike Metzler (Hrsg.), Writing As Intermediary : Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures, Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, S. 173–219, doi: 10.20378/irb-57643.
^ Gallant, Denva. Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Penn State University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5325/jj.11064722.
^ Online Lecture: ‘A Library of Memories: Textual Preservation at the Monastery of St. Michael in Egypt’ with Dr Andrea M. Achi, UCLA’s Annual Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture, 1 March 2021
^ Fetvacı, Emine. The Album of the World Emperor : Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul. Princeton University Press, 2019.
^ Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. “The Clerical Proletariat: The Underemployed Scribe and Vocational Crisis.” Journal of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history 17 (2014): 1–34.
^ Van Engen, John. 2008. Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life : The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
^ Page, Christopher. 2010. The Christian West and Its Singers : The First Thousand Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.
^ Huot, Sylvia. 2003. Madness in Medieval French Literature : Identities Found and Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^ Blayney, Peter W. M. 2013. The Stationers’ Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ Cahn, Walter, and Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology Index of Christian Art. 2008. Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century : Essays in Honor of Walter Cahn. Edited by Colum Hourihane. Princeton, NJ: Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archæology, Princeton University.
^ Longtime Library Director David S. Zeidberg to Retire The Huntington. June 7, 2016.

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Richard and Mary Rouse History of the Book Lectures

[1] Zrinka Stahuljak, “How Early before It Is Too Late? ‘Medieval’ Periodization, Epistemic Change, and the Institution,” Viator 54, no. 2 (2023): 1–24

[2] University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Content Provider et al. Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users : A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011.

[3] Effros, Bonnie, Elizabeth Morrison, and Christopher Baswell. “In Memorium Richard H. Rouse.” Speculum 98.3 (2023): 999–1002.

[4] Rouse, Richard H., and Mary A. Rouse. 2000. Manuscripts and Their Makers : Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200-1500. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers.

[5] Richard H. Rouse, 1933-2022 CMRS. Center for Early Global Studies. College. Humanities, UCLA.

[6] Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Renaissance Manuscripts of the UCLA Library Special Collections. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017.

[7] Rouse, R. H. and Mary Rouse et al. “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts of the UCLA Library Special Collections I. The Richard and Mary Rouse Collection.”Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 472, 2017.

[8] Richardson, Kristina L. 2023. Roma in the Medieval Islamic World : Literacy, Culture, and Migration. London: I.B. Tauris.

[9] Sturkenboom, Ilse; Bisulca, Christina; Bosch, Sebastian; u. a. (2022): Chinese Decorated Paper in Persianate Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century : Materiality, Use and Meaning, in: Lorenz Korn und Berenike Metzler (Hrsg.), Writing As Intermediary : Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures, Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, S. 173–219, doi: 10.20378/irb-57643.

[10] Gallant, Denva. Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Penn State University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5325/jj.11064722.

[11] Online Lecture: ‘A Library of Memories: Textual Preservation at the Monastery of St. Michael in Egypt’ with Dr Andrea M. Achi, UCLA’s Annual Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture, 1 March 2021

[12] Fetvacı, Emine. The Album of the World Emperor : Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul. Princeton University Press, 2019.

[13] Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. “The Clerical Proletariat: The Underemployed Scribe and Vocational Crisis.” Journal of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history 17 (2014): 1–34.

[14] Van Engen, John. 2008. Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life : The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

[15] Page, Christopher. 2010. The Christian West and Its Singers : The First Thousand Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.

[16] Huot, Sylvia. 2003. Madness in Medieval French Literature : Identities Found and Lost. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[17] Blayney, Peter W. M. 2013. The Stationers’ Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[18] Cahn, Walter, and Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology Index of Christian Art. 2008. Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century : Essays in Honor of Walter Cahn. Edited by Colum Hourihane. Princeton, NJ: Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archæology, Princeton University.

[19] Longtime Library Director David S. Zeidberg to Retire The Huntington. June 7, 2016.

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